Campaign Requests Action by Koster, Carnahan Over Election Irregularities

“Robin Carnahan must answer why she failed to maintain database and Koster must investigate St. Louis Election Board misconduct”

St. Louis - In November, Missourians faced unexpected trouble and questionable conduct by election officials.  Secretary of State Robin Carnahan’s statewide voter database failed for most of election day resulting in election day chaos that forced some voters to cast ballots provisionally or being turned away from the polls.  In addition, an election official with the City of St. Louis has now admitted to conduct that appears to violate state and local law.

The Ed Martin for Congress campaign has, in keeping with its commitment to fight for the rights of citizens, continued in its efforts to hold officials accountable.  To that end, the campaign has asked Attorney General Chris Koster to investigate the admissions by St. Louis Election Chair Eileen McCann that she inappropriately hired a security firm that was also under contract with candidate Congressman Russ Carnahan. (link here.)  The campaign also requested that Secretary of State Robin Carnahan explain to citizens why she failed to operate the statewide database.

“Citizens place their trust in election official like Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and Election Board Chair Eileen McCann and, then these official violate that trust, the integrity of our democracy is threatened” said Ed Martin.  “We need a full investigation and a frank explanation of what went wrong and why so we can begin to rebuild the trust.  Democracy needs it and Missourians deserve it.”

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